International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Orthodoxies of ICCM

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Towards a Postcolonial Reading of ICCM

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 3-28

   3. The Commitments and Omissions of ICCM

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 29-54

   4. The Institutional Present

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 55-83

3. Historicizing ICCM

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Colonial Legacies

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 87-113

   3. Modernization, Industrialization and Development

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 114-139

   4. Globalization and Multiculturalism

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 140-163

4. Strategies of Appropriation in ICCM

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Representational Strategies One: Orientalism and Othering

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 167-191

   3. Representational Strategies Two: Establishing a Canon

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 192-223

   4. Engagement, Hybridization and Resistance

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 224-248

5. Reframing ICCM

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Decolonizing Methodology in ICCM

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 251-279

   3. Towards an Alternative Institutional Frame

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 280-301

   4. Conclusion

      • Gavin Jack, Robert Westwood

      Pages 302-314

6. Back Matter

   Pages 315-367

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Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current resonances with the vicissitudes of the so called 'colonial project'. The book explores alternative approaches to the question of the 'other' in late global capitalism.

• Cross-Cultural Management
• Engagement
• globalization
• international management
• management
• strategy

• Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia

  Gavin Jack

• School of Management and Centre for Management and Organisation Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Robert Westwood

BOB WESTWOOD is Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Management, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has previously worked at leading universities in Australia and South-East Asia. His recent publications include Critical Representations of Work and Organizations in Popular Culture (with Carl Rhodes, 2008), and Humour and Organisation (co-edited with Rhodes, 2007)

GAVIN JACK is Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia. His previous publications include Tourism and Intercultural Exchange: Why Tourism Matters (with Alison Phipps, 2005) and a co-edited special topic forum of the Academy of Management Review entitled International Management: Critique and New Directions.
 
 

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